Cop shows are all the rage here. we say, “Shoot it like it’s a crime scene; write it like you’re the only witness.” We’re going to have to deal with description writing with brevity-importance or brief up top, detail down below, as mobile devices continue to encroach on shopping behaviors. The rapid rise in “snacking” [...]
Oscar Season is upon us, and the fine folks over at Kabbage caught the fever recently, awarding me their gold statue for “Tallest Thinking Cap.” In their fun article, they cite my pointy-headedness in the win “for always having his eye on the future of ecommerce.” I actually do enjoy trying to look ahead to [...]
The eBay feedback DSR for Shipping & Handling is automatically getting 5 Star ratings if the Seller offered FREE SHIPPING, according to alert reader SimplyMyBusiness. I was able to test and verify this myself later in the evening, though it isn’t clear that it’s anything other than a trial run. When leaving feedback the Buyer [...]
Not long ago, somebody got it all figured out: the key to being found on eBay search was the first three words in a title. Only these first three keywords, it was explained, were used to determine if the search the Buyer entered was a match to the item. Like other “kinda-sorta-maybe” things that find [...]
eBay gives Stores users two days of 10 cent Auction listings from midnight tonight (July 27) through midnight Wednesday (July 28), no matter the opening price. Sellers are cautioned to do their research before slapping something valuable down without a good idea of recent market demand and price. But for a dime, it may just [...]
Arriving in the mail last week or so was a large-ish eBay envelope (which I let sit on my desk for a couple days, darn it). I was surprised at its contents: It reminded me fondly of an earlier time when eBay actively promoted an image that it was interested in the success of the [...]
Ebay has announced that all Sellers will be able to create USPS labels from the order details page in My eBay by the end of the month. Additionally, this will become the default printing option for Sellers over the span of the next few months, according to the announcement this week. The change may simplify [...]
eBay’s Jim “Griff” Griffith explains the cancellation of the Insurance option for listings, why eBay acted to remove the option, and how Sellers and Buyers should see the change. Are Buyers or Sellers responsible for insuring the parcel delivery? Griffith talks eBay and Insurance in this segment. (Run length: 05:42) This is the fourth part [...]
The marketplace giant eBay continues to step away from its forays into Social Networking, now indicating it will shutter its “eBay Blogs” section on October 31, 2009. The arrival of widely-available, free blog platforms and other social networks like Twitter and Facebook made the cost-cutting decision for eBay a simple one: Let’s save the money – they [...]
